The do-it-yourself home improvement sector has benefited from the multiyear improvement in the housing sector. But the key question moving forward is which is the better holding: Dow component Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) or its smaller rival Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW)?
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The following article originally appeared on Unison.com.
Let’s face it: the maintenance on a home can be quite challenging.
“A house does not have a check engine light. In other words, you don’t know something is wrong until it happens,” says Frank Lesh, executive...

Las Vegas is not just a popular vacation destination these days. According to UBS analyst Susan Maklari, the Vegas housing market is heating up.
UBS recently spoke with Gregg Gross, director of Las Vegas for Metrostudy. Gross provided a number of insightful statistics about the Vegas housing market...

Nikesh Arora, president and chief operating officer of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBF) is stepping down amid pressure from investors, according to a company press release.
The departure of Arora, who was Chief Executive Masayoshi Son's handpicked successor, will assume an advisory role,...

In a new blog post, A Wealth of Common Sense’s Ben Carlson argues that there’s never been a better time to buy a house. Surprisingly, housing prices have nothing to do with his argument.
“Everything is online these days, and you can typically see 20–30 pictures of every...

Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) on Monday reported a stronger-than-expected third quarter print in which the company earned $0.96, exceeding the consensus estimate of $0.81.
Patrick Kealey, Jr. of FBR maintained an Outperform rating on the stock with a price target raised to $60 from a...

Just how worried is the Federal Reserve that global currency gaps and falling crude oil prices could derail the central bank’s course to wean the U.S. economy from ultra-low interest rates?
We could find out as Fed meeting minutes hit mid-week. Those minutes—like the many economic...

Earlier this April, therealdeal.com published an article focused on the historical patterns for Manhattan residential real estate in order to put the recent uptick in prices into perspective.
Source: therealdeal.com
The basic premise of writer E.B. Solomont's article was that "[t]...